Today we get a pilot script from Hollywood’s newest golden child screenwriter Genre: TV Pilot – 1 hour – Horror/Slasher/Sci-Fi Premise: Set 15-20 years in the future, a group of high school kids ensconced in future technology are shocked when one of their friends is murdered, seeing as murder rarely happens anymore. About: Today’s pilot […]
Genre: Horror/Comedy Premise: A Youtuber who’s recently come back from being cancelled livestreams an all-night excursion in a haunted house. About: Pitched as “a found-footage horror movie for people who hate found-footage horror movies,” Deadstream made its debut at SXSW to lots of audience love. The movie was written and directed by husband-wife team Vanessa […]
It’s always fun to see Scriptshadow veterans have success. Kevin Bachar is a former Amateur Showdown winner. He credits the win and the subsequent review as a big learning experience for him. Since then, he’s gone on to write a script, The Inhabitant, a modern take on serial killer Lizzie Borden, that he got optioned […]
This genre, once a secret handshake between in-the-know writers and audiences, has been all but forgotten. Is a sleeper screenwriter ready to revive it? One of the movies I watched recently for my dialogue book was the romantic comedy, Jerry Maguire. That movie has some of the most iconic lines ever written in it. SHOW […]
Genre: Horror/Adventure Premise: A former Hawaiian warrior turned werewolf is recruited to join a mysterious pack of werewolves. About: It appears that Aaron Guzikowski really likes wolves. He created the show, Raised by Wolves. And it turns out, during the planned Monsterverse slate of horror movies, he wrote a draft of The Wolfman. Afterwards, Ryan […]
